Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scouts of Chief Forester William Buckhout Greeley combed the National Forests, climbed mountains, counting big game animals for the Department of Agriculture. Assistant Forester Will C. Barnes, for Secretary Jardine, last week announced the results of the census. C. Young antelopes can be raised on the bottle and old antelopes...
¶ Alaska holds 2,500 giant brown bears, classified with the grizzly in the census. Outside that territory, diligent search could produce but 880 grizzlies, half in Montana and none in California. One lone grizzly roams the state of Oregon; one dwells at Wasatch, Utah. Alarmed, the department reported: "The...
¶ Appropriately, the department noted the prevalence of beavers in the West. Beavers, like Beavermen, are natural engineers. Unlike Beavermen, they eat water lilies, taste like pork, have trowel-like, scaly tails.
For padding payrolls in the Street Cleaning Department, to the extent of perhaps $5,000,000 per annum, three public servants of New York City were last week sentenced to Sing Sing prison. A foreman, William J. Lougheed, had "peached" on William J. Oswald, his superintendent, and Benjamin J. Stoeber...
Word went out from 61 Broadway, Manhattan, that George Edgar Vincent is going to retire as president of the Rockefeller Foundation on Oct. i, 1929. It is rather more than likely that his successor will be Max Mason, who is leaving the presidency of the University of Chicago (Rockefeller founded...